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WORLD
Pope outlines duties
VATICAN CITY ? Polish Pope John Paul II told the
world Tuesday his primary duty is to complete with
"prudent but stimulating actions" reforms introduced
into the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican
Council.
But the church's first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years
warned in his first sermon of his reign that the
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must not affect loyalty to the basic doctrinal truths of
the church.
Syria to renew war
BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Syria's foreign minister has
promised a renewal of his nrmv?? war Qaainot tl%n
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Lebanese Christians, and Saudi Arabia's foreign
minister has told the United States and France the
Lebanese crisis is none of their business.
Abdul Halim Khaddam of Syria told a news conference
Monday his government is determined to end
collaboration between the Christian militiamen and
Israel, and that this has the unanimous backing of
President Elias Sarkis of Lebanon and five other Arab
governments who contribute token forces or money to
reinforce the Syrian armv in Lebanon
Setback for liberals
OTTAWA ? Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau's
Liberals have suffered a sharp setback in special
parliamentary elections that may promise a change of
government for Canada after 15 years.
The opposition Conservatives Dicked off fiv^ i.ihoroi
seats in Ontario and one in Manitoba, and held onto
four other districts Monday in a record 15 elections to
fill vacancies in the House of Commons.
Of the other five seats, the Liberals got two, a, the
New Democratic Party two and the Social Credit Party
one.
Nobels for physicists
STOCKHOLM, Sweden ? The 1978 Nobel Prize In
Physics was awarded jointly Tuesday to Dr. Arno A.
Penzias and Dr. Robert W. Wilson of Bell Telephone
Laboratories of New Jersey and Prof. Pyotr Leontevitch
Kapitsa of Moscow.
Half the $165,000 prize went to Penzias and Wilson for
their discovery of cosmic microwave background
radiation. The other half went to Kapitsa for basic
research into low temperature physics.
Penzias and Wilson were the fifth and sixth
Americans awarded Nobel Prizes this year.
Time to spare
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Columbia. Before much longer Yetta Moll
won't be able to enjoy the capitol
grounds from her favorite park
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Industrial output up
WASHINGTON ? The nation's industrial output rose
by 0.5 percent in September, a solid gain that appears
to rule out any danger of a recession in the closing
months of this year at least, government figures
showed Tuesday.
The increase was the same as for August and
followed gains of 0.7 percent in both June and July.
The Federal Reserve Board said industrial output
increased in September for equipment, business and
construction supplies and materials.
Smith 'ready' to talk
LOS ANGELES ? Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian
Smith says he is ready to attend a conference with
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gueriua leaders to work out his nation's transition to
black majority rule.
"We are ready to talk to anyone, but we can't accept
any preconditions," Smith told a Los Angeles World
Affairs Council dinner Monday.
Before he spoke, more than 600 demonstrators
marched outside the downtown Biltmore Hotel,
protesting his presence in the city.
Among them was actress Jane Fonda, who said the
demonstration showed "the people of California
oppose Smith's regime. His days are numbered."
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tignr Killed in tire
PHILADELPHIA ? A fire of suspicious origin swept
through a rowhouse early Tuesday, killing eight
perople, officials said. At least six of the victims were
members of one family, a medical examiner reported.
The dead included four teenage girls, their parents
and two young men believed to be brothers of the dead
woman, said Dr. Marvin Aronson, the county medical
examiner. Officials had said earlier six shildren had
died.
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and police officials said they were investigating the
possibility of arson.
Crackdown planned
ATLANTA ? The warden of the federal penitentiary
in Atlanta says he is taking new steps to control
weapons trafficking in the aging facility. Warden Jack
Han berry said that airport-type metal detecters have
been installed in the prison, the scene of a recent rash
of killings, to intercept weapons fashioned by prisoners
from materials in the industrial shops.
He said in a speech he believes installation of the
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Pay decision needed
State Attorney General Daniel R. McLeod has been
asked for an opinion on whether all 124 members of th*
South Carolina House of Representatives are entitled
to a $750 bonus for a three-day reorganizational
meeting next month.
The attorney general will advise whether he thinks
the three-day meeting called by Carter for Nov. 14-16
amounts to a special legislative session for which
members receive $250 a day.
Kidnapper gets life
GREENVILLE Ronald Ramey, who admitted
attacking a patrolman who stopped him for speeding
and found a nude, badly beaten girl in his car, has
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received a me prison term.
Special Judge John Gentry gave Ramey, 26, of
Seneca, the sentence of life plus 40 years after the
defendant pled guilty Monday to charges of kidnapping,
rape and assault.
Ramey got the life term for kidnapping, 30 years for
first-degree sexual assault and 10 years for assaulting
Highway Patrolman H.B. May. He received another 20
years for assault with intent to kill the girl. TTiat term
will run concurrently with the others.
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CHESTERFIELD ? An executive committee
member of the Chesterfield County Democratic Party
has been convicted on a charge of voting fraud in the
June primaries.
Circuit Judge Howard Ballenger yesterday sentenced
Donald Davis to three months in prison for
forging votes during the June Democratic primary.
rv uuiumucee member for a quarter of a century,
Davis pleaded guilty to the charge. He had been indicted
a few hours earlier by the Chesterfield County
grand jury.
McGowan replies
South Carolina Labor Commissioner Edgar L.
McGowan says in response to a textile industry suit
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rules are legal and won't damage the state's economy.
McGowan asked that the suit, brought by the South
Carolina Textile Manufacturers Association be
dismissed. The organization brought the suit against
the Labor Department after it adopted federal Ocriinfltinnnl
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Mpaiums on ooiu>n
dust.
The regulations are aimed at reducing the amount of
dust in the atmosphere of mills.
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